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<H1>Building Dataxi application</H1>
<P>This is quick and simple procedure, really.<BR>Open up any html
file under <B>forms</B> folder in tring. It is advisable to use some
WYSIWYG HTML editor to get the general idea how a Dataxi form is
build. Below is the albums.html<SPAN LANG="en-GB"> viewed </SPAN>in
Mozilla Composer.<BR><IMG SRC="albumss.png" NAME="Graphic1" ALT="Albums source" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=850 HEIGHT=495 BORDER=0>
<BR>If take a look at the HTML source, these is also an extra comment
block in the HEAD section:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>&lt;!-- dataxi<BR>[dztables]<BR>albums={ alias=m
key=albumno:int:$auto }<BR>tracks={ alias=d
key=$albums,trackno:int:$auto
}<BR><BR>[sorting]<BR>albums.artistno=asc<BR>albums.name=asc<BR><BR>[list]<BR>m.albumno={
just=r len=7 }<BR>m.name={ just=l len=30 }<BR>m.pubyear={ just=r
len=4 }<BR><BR>[form]<BR><BR>[interfaces]<BR>types=0:Compact_disc,1:LP<BR>--&gt;</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>taxi comment block describes the table relations and their key
structure.<BR>That is all one has to do to get a working form to view
and use under Dataxi, except you have to edit menu.ini (under <B>ini</B>
folder in Tring) to introduce the menu system your new<SPAN LANG="en-GB">
form. There </SPAN>are lot more options that<SPAN LANG="en-GB">
displayed </SPAN>in this albums source and you should take a look at
Dataxi-forms-HOWTO for details.</P>
<H1>The end?</H1>
<P>Yes.</P>
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